Riskable

I’m confused. I thought they didn’t want the brown people to be more fit than law enforcement?

Makes sense to me: The entire service was designed from the start to only attract suckers. It’s the ultimate sucker user base.

I have an extremist view of the legal system: I think all lawyers should be government employees and they should be assigned cases based on their area of expertise in law.

So no matter how many people sue you and no matter how much legal harassment any given entity attempts, it’s the government’s problem to manage all of that.

It shouldn’t be possible to bankrupt someone with legal fees alone. It shouldn’t be possible for a billionaire (or corporation) to always have the best legal team. It shouldn’t cost millions of dollars to defend yourself from or litigate a patent.

The only way I can think of to solve these problems is to get rid of private firms.

You take their patents away and make them public domain.

I’m just telling it like it is. The old ways were terrible! However, being local and requiring proper collateral instead of just giving n people money en mass—knowing that the percentage that default will be outweighed by the percentage that pay the loan back (and ripping people off by making them pay the interest up front)—was probably better for the economy.

Not everyone should be allowed to amass debt the way we currently allow it. Furthermore, if people couldn’t get loans for school so easily (in fact, guaranteed!) then college tuition would be but a fraction of what it is today.

…which is funny because the way things are going, the tiny people living in Japan will share the same fate as homo floresiensis (hobbit-sized species of humans that lived on an island nation of sorts and we’ve extinct). Thousands of years from nowz archeologists will compare the two and wonder if homo floresuensis were equally as racist.

The last “true” Japanese person (according to them)—someone named, Sato—will be heard shouting that “it’s all the immigrants fault” as they die of heat exhaustion about 200-250 years from now.

Collateral and, historically, age, race, sex, and ethnicity. They’d also look at how well you were dressed because 100% of the time you went to the bank in-person to get a loan. Also, your bank wouldn’t be far from where you lived and the local population wasn’t so large that they couldn’t just “ask around” the local social network to see if this man before them was upstanding enough to warrant giving them money.

Also note that people didn’t need to borrow money as much as they do today. You wanted a new home appliance like an oven or refrigerator? You saved for quite some time to buy it.

There weren’t as many things to spend your money on either!

Apples themselves originated in Kazakhstan 👍

Lemons, northwestern India.

The American flag in the background should also be marked as, “Made in China” 😁

I know a guy that can’t speak anymore. He only says, “MIPI!”

AKA the “protect Visa and MasterCard bill.”

By banning the US government from making their own digital currency the bill guarantees credit card companies like Visa and MasterCard will be able to continue ripping off US consumers and businesses with transaction fees.

Who TF cares what Alex Jones thinks? You’re more likely to get an interesting take from a random stranger. In fact, do that instead of continuing to give attention to dried up former celebrities where you can be absolutely certain they don’t deserve it.

An unnecessary emulation too! Of fascists.

Yeah! Go for it!

I’m curious to see how you’ll haul away 19,600 gallons of corn syrup, 3,900 bushels of grain, 100 tons of random auto parts, 80 tons of paper reams, 70 tons of logs, 13,000 gallons of ammonia (or other dangerous chemicals), and the various other things that typically get shipped via rail these days.

You might get lucky and find a boxcar full of canned goods 👍

…or maybe even actual cars but… How would you get them off the train without the necessary equipment/track setup? 🤔

Everyone’s joking but this is a serious problem. Imagine you’re a billionaire and someone wants to assassinate you. The would-be assassin could figure out when you have a doctor’s appointment (or similar) and force a train to get stuck, blocking their route.

It would leave the billionaire stuck in traffic with no escape until the train(s) started moving again. An entire cavalcade of security personnel would also be stuck (if they had one).

Aside: It could also work for robbing something like a Brinks truck but let’s be honest: In this dystopian world it’s more likely that this vulnerability would be used to rob a food shipment 🙄

To summarize: Texas allows itself to be governed via right wing ideology and right wing ideology makes for piss poor disaster preparedness.

Expecting your government to do anything at all to protect people from disasters is literally the opposite of right wing ideology. Disaster preparedness—in the form of warning systems and building regulations—are implementations socialism (and environmentalism).

If you’re a conservative (or libertarian), little girls dying in floods every few years is your ideal scenario. That’s literally what you believe in! That it’s not the government’s job to prevent such things.

And let’s be honest: If you’re conservative you probably don’t believe in global warming either so this is just an “act of God” that no one could’ve predicted (except science did predict this). Clearly, God is punishing those little girls (or their parents) for… Living in Texas?

The US is not “openly bankrolling” any AI companies. The closest thing would be OpenAI’s recent contract with the military:

https://www.theverge.com/news/688041/openai-us-defense-department-200-million-contract

Whereas China is definitely funding AI efforts in their country because they’re communist (sort of). That’s literally how communism works: The government funds stuff.

China isn’t really communist in the traditional sense but they definitely use government funds to prop up business they feel will give the country a strategic advantage. They do this directly (here’s a check to pay people) and indirectly (we’ll subsidize all shipping for your business and make sure you get sweetheart deals with other businesses you rely on).

The Chinese government is in the business of picking winners and losers in the market and they’re open about it. It’s not a secret. That’s literally how their government is setup.

The US has ways of picking winners but they’re not nearly as direct and there’s a whole lot of rules that must be followed or competitors will sue and win. Then the whole process falls apart.

TL;DR: You’re directly wrong and you’re framing the story wrong as well.

Aside: If OpenAI goes bankrupt after wasting billions of rich investor dollars the citizens of the US will not have lost billions as a result. Whereas in China…

Flood warning systems are socialism though!

Nah. The rich have more than enough money to cover the missing people.

Arrr! Just say a prayer to the bitch queen of the sea every day and you’ll be safe in your hammock, pirate.

Foam mattresses float. Just keep a bottle of water and a hand axe under your pillow 👍